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Movie Info

Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris holds the remains of many notable people, such as Chopin, Édith Piaf, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret and Jim Morrison. The many people who visit the site to visit graves of loved ones and those who stop there as tourists find that it has mysterious and consoling beauty.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

Heddy Honigmann
Producer:

Carmen Cobos
Writer:

Ester Gould, Heddy Honigmann, Judith Vreriks
Release Date (Streaming):

Jan 25, 2017
Runtime:

1h 37m

Cast & Crew

Heddy Honigmann
Director

Ester Gould
Writer

Heddy Honigmann
Writer

Judith Vreriks
Writer

Carmen Cobos
Producer

Robert Alazraki
Cinematographer

News & Interviews for Forever

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Critic Reviews for Forever

All Critics (20) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (2)

This is a film, then, about a place of death giving meanings for life.

July 3, 2008 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Alan G. Artner
Chicago Tribune
What we see in Heddy Honigmann's understated, touching documentary are the ways that people reach out to the abstract.

September 20, 2007 | Full Review…

Desson Thomson
Washington Post
Honigmann develops, with deceptive casualness, a few unforgettable character studies and one of the purest, most moving motion pictures of the year.

September 18, 2007 | Full Review…

Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
Achieves something more resonant than a Solemn Affirmation of the Immortal Spirit of Art.

September 18, 2007

Nick Pinkerton
Village Voice
Without digging up a single rotting, worm-infested corpse or skeleton, Honigmann's lovely, elegant meditation nevertheless exposes haunting truths about Pre-Lachaise and the visitors who fill it with such incongruous life and vivacity.

September 14, 2007 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

Nathan Rabin
AV Club
Honigmann's subtle asides -- moody cuts to mournful statuary, insects crawling over tombs -- all speak to her art-is-immortal theme.

September 13, 2007 | Rating: 3.5/4

John Anderson
Newsday
Forever [is] an infinitely touching documentary about the Père Lachaise cemetery and its visitors.

July 6, 2010 | Full Review…

Stuart Klawans
The Nation
Experiencing art beyond the grave

July 22, 2009 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

James Wegg
JWR
meditative and measured

April 11, 2009 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Paul Brenner
Filmcritic.com
At times a little pretentious, but a reasonable, not perfect, meditation on art and beauty and the relation of the living artist with the dead who have contributed to his art.

April 6, 2009 | Rating: 6/10

Mark R. Leeper
rec.arts.movies.reviews
It's a surprisingly upbeat and moving film considering it's set at a cemetery.

March 29, 2009 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
To be honest, a 90-minute documentary about a cemetery sounds about as exciting as spending 90 minutes in a cemetery. But surprisingly, Forever turns out to be a much-better film than that would suggest.

May 29, 2008 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Jeff Vice
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)